How to celebrate in College Football 25: Complete guide to player, team and coaching celebrations

It has been an 11-year wait for fans of the EA Sports College Football 25 game which launched on July 19 to much fanfare. The highly-anticipated game took 3 years to develop with several hiccups including surmounting the NIL-era regulations that currently govern college sports.

One of the aspects of the popular game that enthusiastic fans will have to come to grips with is the various ways that they'll be able to celebrate achievements in the game.

Players will be able to perform interception, first down and touchdown celebrations in the College Football 25 game but all of these will require different inputs. Below is a complete guide to celebrations in the game.

Complete guide to celebrations in CFB 25

The complete guide to celebrations in the EA Sports College Football 25 game is broken down as follows:

Interceptions

There are several custom celebrations for whenever a player intercepts a pass in the game.

• Wave Goodbye - Right Stick up
• Why You Throwing My Way - Right Stick right
• Strapped - Right Stick down
• Head Swag - Right Stick left

First down celebrations

The game is so detailed that it has first down celebrations which include:

• Signal It - Right Stick up
• Touch 'em Up - Right Stick right
• Jacked - Right Stick down
• Shake It Off - Right Stick left

Touchdown celebrations

Whenever a player scores a touchdown in the College Football 25 game, the following celebrations are available to them.

• Vibes - Right Stick up
• Shoot The Arrow - Right Stick right
• Jacked - Right Stick down
• Ice In My Veins - Right Stick left
• Tiger Swag - Right Stick up + LT/L2
• I Can't Hear You - Right Stick right + LT/L2
• The King - Right Stick down + LT/L2
• Strike a Pose - Right Stick left + LT/L2
• Who Cares - Right Stick up + LB/L1
• Cross Up - Right Stick right + LB/L1
• It's Time - Right Stick down + LB/L1
• Head Swag - Right Stick left + LB/L1
• Wave Goodbye - Right Stick up + RT/R2
• Little Baby - Right Stick right + RT/R2
• On His Head - Right Stick down + RT/R2
• Put 'em To Sleep - Right Stick left + RT/R2
• Point To The fans - Right Stick up + RB/R1
• Come At Me Bro - Right Stick right + RB/R1
• Mic Drop - Right Stick down + RB/R1
• Salute Or Show The Ice (Colorado Only) - Right Stick left + RB/R1

College Football 25 has a massive launch

The EA Sports College Football franchise revealed that over 700,000 players were online concurrently after the July 15 early release which was granted to players who obtained the deluxe version of the game.

After the standard release on July 19, the franchise revealed that the realistic game managed 2.8 million players with 2.2 million paying to get early access. EA Play also managed 600,000 players.

The franchise released a statement before the release date highlighting the enthusiasm for the game from college football fans.

"To say we’ve been blown away by the excitement, energy and anticipation around College Football 25 over the past few months would be an understatement," the statement read. “Just like you, our team has had July 19 circled for months as the culmination of so much work and dedication to build this game, and the chance to see it in players’ hands for the first time.”

The uptake for the game on day one of its release despite a few bugs fixed by a patch has confirmed to fans and developers that the void left by the game's hiatus has not been reliably filled by any other game since 2013.